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    The Navigator

    Written by Eoin McNamee

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

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    Owen turned to Cat but she was staring into the woods, her face a mast of fear. Far off, but moving closer, were two figures, both white, both faceless, seeming to glide between the trees. "The Harsh" whispered Cati."They're here."

    One day the world around Owen shifts oddly: Time flows backwards, and the world and family he knew disappear. Time can only be set right when the Resisters vanquish their ancient enemies, the Harsh. Unless they are stopped, everything Owen knows will vanish as if it has never been...And Owen discovers he has a terrifying role to play in this battle: he is the Navigator.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 9, 2007
    ISBN9780739339503
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    The Navigator
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    Eoin McNamee

    Eoin McNamee was born in County Down, Northern Ireland. He is critically acclaimed as an adult novelist, the best known title being RESURRECTION MAN (“one of the most outstanding pieces of Irish fiction to come along in years” Irish Times) which was also made into a film. " He was awarded the Macauley Fellowship for Irish Literature in 1990. " In addition to his literary novels, Eoin has written two thrillers under the pseudonym John Creed.

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    • 4/5
      This book is about a professor who handpicks a crew to seek an uncharted island. He hopes to prove that it exists and to possibly settle on this island. This is a very good book.
    • 5/5
      This is a good read. The book is based in the Pacific. Our adventure starts in Hawaii, a University Prof. is turned down for tenure, though he has brilliant publications of the Pacific Ocean, it Navigation and trade routes. He list in an appendix a mystical island of the navigators from legend. And writes it as if it is a fact. An island no one has ever seen.
    • 3/5
      Reread 27/12/2021 as part of the Covid reread of all books on my shelves. Good to reread with a fresh attitude. Great weaving of relationships and the problems arising when a small group is shipwrecked. The thread of Polynesian culture and history was very well presented and obviously researched. The final outcome was also a credible way to finish.
    • 4/5
      I've just re-read this book for the first time in perhaps twenty years. I've had a copy on my physical bookshelf all this time, carried it to college and through numerous moves, even though it took me this long to come back and read it again.

      It's an intense and challenging story of a hodgepodge of modern people shipwrecked on an uncharted island, led by a half-Polyneian/half-caucasian man who is the descendent of a line of navigators, inheritor of the mana of his ancestors.

      Morris West is a fine writer who seems to tell two kinds of stories. He is best known, I think, for novels about the Catholic hierarchy, but "The Navigator" is one of what I call his pagan novels: stories of people rooted in and driven by older, more primitive codes. He acknowledges the spiritual power that lies outside modern religion, and respects it.

      The book is as powerful as I remembered it, but I was not prepared for its old fashioned sexism. Traditional gender roles are taken for granted, never questioned, even when every other convention is held up for scrutiny.

      This is an excellent book, one I will continue to keep on my shelves.